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majority of cases hot. In warm weather they must not 

 be allowed to sour or remain on too long or the wound 

 will be made worse rather than better, due to the in- 

 creased germ population. In such cases an ounce of 

 creolin added to the poultice will be useful. A clean 

 sweet poultice is made with folds of cheese cloth soaked 

 in a hot carbolic acid or corrosive sublimate solution. 



Poisons and their Antidotes. Drugs administered in 

 too large or too frequent doses become poisons, a few of 

 the common ones are given with the symptoms caused 

 and the antidote. 



Aconite, that old friend of the stockman is a very com- 

 mon cause of death among live stock, due to over doses. 



Symptoms. Attempts at vomiting, retching and gurg- 

 ling sounds in the throat, difficult breathing, depression 

 well marked, froths at the mouth, sweating. 



Antidote. Give stimulants, whiskey, coffee or brandy, 

 keep warm, blanket and hand rub. 



Arsenic is sometimes used to improve the condition of 

 horses, a dangerous method in the hands of novices. The 

 symptoms are colicky pains, depression, pulse small, 

 rapid and irregular, breathing hurried, and .sometimes 

 diarrhoea; if slow poisoning is taking place, the eyelids 

 are puffy, eyes watery and irritable; shortness of breath 

 when worked, and depression. 



Antidote. Stop giving the drug, and give fresh sesqui- 

 oxide of iron or magnesia half-pound doses in warm 

 water; give stimulants. 



Ammonia Water in large undiluted doses causes great 

 pain, slavering and casting off of the mucous lining of the 

 mouth, difficulty in breathing, cough, choking effects, 

 the poison may be smelled from the breath. 



